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Feature Request: configurable timeouts in Network.Browser

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by locating the Network.Browser request and connection-timeout handling, then inspect how HTTP requests are configured and tested in this package. Determine where a configurable timeout belongs and how sub-second values should be represented. Done means callers, including lambdabot, can set a connection timeout with sub-second resolution and the relevant tests pass.

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Description

It would be very nice, especially for lambdabot (where it's more important to get a fast answer than to get one at all), to be able to configure the connection timeout for HTTP requests, preferably with sub-second resolution.

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